Posts Tagged ‘Urban’

Urban Road Warrior Emergency Preparedness Auto Survival Kit

Urban Road Warrior Emergency Preparedness Auto Survival Kit

  • This kit fits most all road emergency situations
  • All items are packed in a heavy – duty backpack.
  • One of our most popular emergency vehicle kits.
  • Contains 19 essential items for automobile emergency situations.
  • See Product Description For Everything That’s Included.

This kit fits most all road emergency situations. All items are packed in a heavy-duty backpack. Kit contains: 30 Minute High-Intensity Light Stick – Tow Rope – Auto Spot Light – Jumper Cables – First Aid Kit – Flashlight with Batteries – Fire Extinguisher – Solar Blanket – Waterproof Poncho – Swiss Style Army Knife – Flat Tire Fixer – Drinking … read more

Sustainability Science: The Emerging Paradigm and the Urban Environment

Sustainability Science: The Emerging Paradigm and the Urban Environment

The object of this book is to highlight how the nascent field of sustainability science is addressing a key challenges for scientists; that is, understanding the workings of complex systems especially when humans are involved. A consistent thread in the sustainability science movement is the wide acknowledgement that greater degrees of integration across what are now segmented dimensions of extant Science and Technology systems will be a key factor in matching the most appropriate science and technology solutions to specific sustainability problems in specific places.

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The Single Woman’s Guide to Urban Disaster Preparedness

The Single Woman's Guide to Urban Disaster Preparedness

Have you ever wondered how you would cope if there was a disaster? What would you need if there was no power or communication for an extended period? Would you be prepared to remain in your home for a few days, a week, or a month without venturing outside? Can you put your hands on exactly what you would like to take with you if you had to evacuate?

Written specifically for a single woman living in an urban environment, this is a practical guide to prepare your home for safety and comfort for as long as you … read more

Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival: The Remaking of American Environmentalism (Urban and Industrial Environments)

Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival: The Remaking of American Environmentalism (Urban and Industrial Environments)

For over half a century, the biologist Barry Commoner has been one of the most prominent and charismatic defenders of the American environment, appearing on the cover of Time magazine in 1970 as the standard-bearer of “the emerging science of survival.” In Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival, Michael Egan examines Commoner’s social and scientific activism and charts an important shift in American environmental values since World War II.Throughout his career, Commoner believed that scientists had a social responsibility, and that one of their most important obligations was to provide citizens with accessible scientific information so … read more

The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings

The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings

The book that launched America’s urban legend obsession!

The Vanishing Hitchhiker was Professor Brunvand’s first popular book on urban legends, and it remains a classic. The culmination of twenty years of collection and research, this book is a must-have for urban legend lovers.

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Urban Africa: Changing Contours of Survival in the City (Global Issues Series)

Urban Africa: Changing Contours of Survival in the City (Global Issues Series)

Amidst emergent cultural formations in Dakar, Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Kisangani, Jos, Zaria, Cairo, and Marakesh, this collection focuses on diverse ways Africans negotiate novel spatial practices, political economic processes, and social relations that entangle place, identity and power in urban sites. While historically familiar patterns linking the country and city remain, these sedimentations are reworked through the incessant remaking of virtual, real, and moral economies where African agency animates diverse urban formations. African cities are made meaningful through the geographically uneven dynamics of globalization that articulate with locally specific histories, cultural practices, and political contingencies.